[CentOS] How to rebuild logrotate.status

[James Pearson]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have a problem in that at first all my log files were dated 12-31-1969
> and logrotate has:
>
> # more /var/lib/logrotate.status
> logrotate state -- version 2
> "/var/log/yum.log" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/named/data/named.run" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/httpd/error_log" 2015-8-27-4:43:1
> "/var/log/wtmp" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/chrony/*.log" 2015-8-19-22:0:0
> "/var/log/spooler" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/btmp" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/maillog" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/wpa_supplicant.log" 2015-8-19-22:0:0
> "/var/log/secure" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/ppp/connect-errors" 2015-8-19-22:0:0
> "/var/log/messages" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/cron" 1969-12-31-20:26:1
> "/var/log/httpd/access_log" 2015-8-27-4:43:1
>
>
> How do I get this file rebuilt with the dates currently on the files
> listed?

Whenever I've had a problem with logrotate.status files, I just delete 
them and let logrotate regenerate it the next time it runs

James Pearson